Richard Brooke (explorer)

Richard "Brookes" Brooke was an explorer and Royal Naval surveyor whose achievements included spending two winters on the British North‑East Greenland Expedition and participating in Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition . During the TAE he became the first person to ascend a peak in the Royal Society Range and walked the 1600 km between Mawson Glacier and Mulock Glacier.
He was also a licensed lay reader in the Church of England in Bath, Somerset.
He died on 29 June 2020 at the age of 93.